I know I've done this, but it never occurred to me how harmful these types of "compliments" can be.

Take it a step further and we can, often unconsciously, use compliments to get people to do what we want.
Apparently we’ve been doing compliments all wrong
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May 17, 2022
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I know I've done this, but it never occurred to me how harmful these types of "compliments" can be. Thank you for such an insightful piece!
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